Congratulations to the Jordan Schnitzer
First Book Publication Award Winners!
These awards are given to Association for Jewish Studies member authors who have secured publishing contracts but require subventions to ensure publication of their first books. We are so pleased to announce this year’s winners and their books:
- Samantha M. Cooper, American Jews and the Making of the New York Opera Industry, 1890-1940
- Judith Lin, Belonging to Exile: Sephardic Homelands through Poetry
- Deborah Koren, Responsa in a Historical Context: A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities through Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Responsa
- Yosie Levine, Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate
- Lucas Wilson, At Home with the Holocaust: Postmemory, Domestic Space, and Second-Generation Holocaust Narratives
- Polly Zavadivker, A Nation of Refugees: Lost Stories of Russia’s Jews in World War I